Cocoa And Slavery. By Francie Grace. May 31, 2002 / 4:02 AM EDT / Reuters A human rights group has asked the U.S. Customs Service to bar imports of cocoa ...

More than 90 percent of cocoa from Ivory Coast — the world's biggest producer of cocoa — is procured with the help of child labor, according to Slavery, a documentary broadcast on Britain's ...

Next time you unwrap a candy bar, consider this: an estimated 2.3 million children work in the cocoa fields of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. A number of major chocolate companies such as Nestlé, Mars ...

THE CHOCOLATE you buy this Mother’s Day could come from cocoa farmed by slaves. Americans will spend tens of millions of dollars on chocolate this week – unaware that the beans used to … ...

Samuel Mawutor, forest campaign group Mighty Earth’s Senior Advisor for Africa, argues that while June 19th marks the official end of slavery in the Confederacy, American agribusiness companies ...

On Valentine’s Day, there will be no chocolate gifts for young Aly Diabate. “I don’t know what chocolate is,” said Aly, who was forced into slavery at age 11 to harvest cocoa beans in ...

He discovered that the world’s largest chocolate manufacturers were buying cocoa from plantations that used illegal child labor and modern slavery. In West Africa’s cocoa supply chains, there ...

If you gave someone chocolate for Valentine’s Day, it may well have come from the Ivory Coast, the source of about 35 percent of the globe’s cocoa production. And if it did come from the Ivory ...

American chocolate company Hershey has promised to source 100 percent certified cocoa by 2020 in response to mounting pressure over the widespread use of child slave labor in the cocoa industry.

Nestle’s U.S. unit and Cargill Inc. are urging the Supreme Court to end a suit accusing them of complicity in the use of forced child labor on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

(CN) – Eight Ninth Circuit judges accused their colleagues of “substitut[ing] sympathy for legal analysis,” in a ruling permitting former child slaves to sue Nestle USA, and dissented from the full ...